Stamp-inking pad



N. MOCK.

STAMP INKING PAD.

- APPLICATION FILED JULY 2. 1920.

1,385,022, Patented July 19,192L

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STAMP-INKING PAD.

Application filed July 2, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATE Moon a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at 11, Holborn, London, E. C. 1, England. Great Britain, have invented new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Stamp-inking Pads, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to a stamp inking pad, the fundamental idea of which is to so insert the pad in its box that upon the stamp striking against the mo able cover of said box the pad will be exposed whereupon the stamp can slide over the surface of the inking pad. Upon removing the stamp, the box or casing encircling the pad, will again close automatically.

In one especially effective constructional form of the invention the inking pad, combined with the cover is mounted rotatably in the casing in suchwise that upon striking it with the stamp it is brought out of the closed position with the cover uppermost into a position in which the stamp can pass over the flat surface of the pad.

A further feature of the invention comprises means whereby the stamp inking pad may be retained in its open or operative position.

A constructional embodiment of the invention is shown on the drawings, where Figure 1 shows it closed, in plan view, Fig. 2 a front view of the device in the closed position, and Fig. 3' represents the same in the position ready for use. Figs. d and 5 show one method of retaining the device'in its open position.

As here illustrated the pad a is connected to a roller like cover 5, in suchwise that an enveloping cylindrical surface results which is interrupted by a smooth surface formed by the face of the inking pad.

This lid shaped portion is provided with pivots c, by means of which it is so mounted in the casing (Z that it can be swung around the said pivots.

At one of the longitudinal sides it is provided with a stop 6. The lid shaped portion is so arranged that it tends to take up the closed position automatically as represented in Figs. 1 and 2 This can be effected Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 19, 1921.

Serial No. 393,577.

either by arranging the pivots 0 eccentrically, or by means of a spring or weight mechanism. To use the device the stamp 7' is brought against the stop I) so as to cause the lid portion a, b, to swing around the pivots c and turn into the casing in the direction of the arrow as so that the flat surface of the stamp pad a is exposed. Over this surface the stamp passes in the direction of the arrow y and thus inks its surface. As soon as it is removed the lid portion swings automatically in a direction opposite to that of the arrow so again assuming the closed position.

In some cases it may be advantageous to provide the stamp inking pad device with means whereby it is possible to retain the pad in its open or operative position, and one way in which this can be effected is shown by Figs. 4: and 5 of the drawings whereon the stop b has secured to onset its surfaces by way of soldering or like means a pin or spur g. The casing d has attached to it a dog it fashioned with a jaw i which engages the pin or spur g. The dog has secured thereon a weight j and secured to the casing d is a pin is for limiting the swinging movement of the dog. In the normal or inoperative position the dog it rests against the bearing for the pivot 0 as shown in Fig. 5. To retain the stamp inking pad in its open position the dog it is first moved in the direction of the arrow :0 so that it rests against the pin is; the stamp f is now brought against the step b the lid portion a Z) swings around on the pivots c the pin or spur g rides on the surface h of dog it until the pin enters the jaw i, the weight preventing backward movement of the dog, and the position of the parts is as shown on Fig. 4. The stamp f is inked by affording it a sliding movement across the pad 0; in the direction of the arrow f;

Having thus described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows 1. A stamping pad including a casing a pad rotatably mounted within the casing, said pad having an ink delivering surface, said ink delivering surface adapted to normally lie within the casing and said pad having means to be engaged by a stamp for for normally-[holding the dog in a, locking moving, the ink delivering surface to a poposition, and means coiiperating with the sition exterioi 'ly of the casing. v dog'and carried by the lid. for locking the 1 0 2. A s'tz mplng pad including a casing, a lid against movement. I 1 y 5 movable 11d carriedthereon, an ink deliver In testimony whereof I have signed my ing surface carried by the lid, a dog secured' name to this specification. V V to the casing, a jaw formed thereona Weight- NATE MOCK. 

